Gain synergistic expertise in spatial economics, data analysis, and spatial sciences in this innovative interdisciplinary program for a competitive advantage in the spatial Big Data marketplace.
Work with globally recognized faculty from the Spatial Sciences Institute in the USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences and the Department of Economics to identify business opportunities and address public policy challenges using location-based Big Data with insights from geographic information science (GIS), urban economics, and spatial econometrics.
In this rigorous quantitative curriculum, develop approaches for assembling and mining large-scale geo-coded data to uncover emerging spatial trends and to produce actionable results. Professionals with spatial economics and data analysis capabilities can offer new understandings in emerging business opportunities, environmental trends, urban crime, congestion trends, real estate valuation, technology diffusion, and countless other commercial and social applications around the world.